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On the Transfer of Output Diversity via Synthetic Data in Language Models

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This paper finds that output-distribution tendencies can be partially transmitted through unrelated synthetic data, and suggests that diversity-related behavior is shaped, at least in part, by the latent model state rather than solely by decoding-time randomness.

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